Duke Magazine Articles Cites Dean Powery in Exploration of 'Eruditio et Religio' Motto
An article in the Centennial issue of Duke Magazine explores the history and meaning of the university’s motto “eruditio et religio” (“knowledge and religion”) and includes reflections from Duke Chapel Luke Powery.
“You’re seeking, you're trying to discover, you are researching. And in many ways, that's the heart of a university – research, teaching, exploring, even dreaming,” Powery says. “We don't always know the answers. That's why we're doing research. And I think that's an impulse of faith. It's often also about questions – and even questions that we may never discover the answers to, but yet we keep asking. We keep seeking. We keep exploring.”
“At its heart,” Powery says of “religio,” “it’s saying we're bound in a liberating way, not in a restrictive way, but actually in our boundedness we find our freedom to be who we have always wanted to be.”